“What was the whole literature of supernatural horror but an essay to make death itself exciting?—wonder and strangeness to life’s very end.”
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 27 (p. 166)
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Part 3, Ch. 12, § 3.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Context: The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 54)
“Life is very marvelous … and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.”
The Gander, in Book Seven : What Saraïde Wanted, Ch. XLV : The Gander Also Generalizes
The Silver Stallion (1926)
“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Source: The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature: Revised and Enlarged